A Quarterly Journal of Culture and Politics
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Volume 2 — Number 4
Summer 2022
Oksana Forostyna’s A Diary from Lviv; Robert Kagan argues All Wars are Wars of Choice; Justin E. H. Smith grapples with The Gamification of Reality; James Wolcott questions The Poetry of Rock; Pascal Bruckner perceives The Oblomovization of the West; William Deresiewicz on higher education’s Schools for Souls; Jaroslaw Anders writes An Open Letter to an Enemy in My Native Land; Elliot Ackerman reveals The Politicization of the American Military; Jonathan Baskin on Sheila Heti and the Fight for Art; A Conversation About Modern History between Isaiah Berlin and Adam Michnik; David Thomson goes back to Chinatown with Roman Polanski and John Huston; Helen Vendler reads John Donne for How to Talk to God; Celeste Marcus on Why Women Mortify Themselves; Leon Wieseltier on Ukraine and Us; and, poetry from Valzhyna Mort, Daryna Gladun, Lesyk Panasiuk, Uri Tzvi Greenberg, Henri Cole, Claire Malroux, La Fontaine, and Devin Johnston.
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